Larry Craig, the U.S. senator whose airport-bathroom gay-sex bust introduced the phrase "wide stance" into Beltway argot, has run out of appeals to withdraw his guilty plea for disorderly conduct.
Craig may never have uttered the words "wide stance" himself; that phrase came from a police report filed by Minnesota airport police officer Dave Karsnia, in a summary of Craig's explanation after his arrest. So let's relive this great moment in criminal history:
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